A government anti-street sleeper structure outside Kwun Tong Pier. How about calling it –Heart of Stone – and include it as an exhibit of Shenzhen Hong Kong Architecture Biennale? to mark the reality of this city?
Category Archives: words at work
面書上在情人節對女性的揶揄
Cap 自 Facebook. 作者不詳
只想記存一下這幀在面書上這有1777個like, 隱諭女性抱著的是stigma(花柱也是恥辱的圖.我不讚成送花, 因為種花業所做成對環境/階級/種族/社群/女性僱工的剝削, (見另文), 但對花本身沒什麼意見, 包括花的性事. 面對女性拿著生殖器滿街走的揶揄, 我想起當的研究植物的西方女性被指埋頭研究花田性事會學得不道德不知羞恥 而被迫放棄研究……這圖和展示的思想是一脈相乘吧? 有人說這圖只是真相了
notes:
http://www.academia.edu/185978/Not_Strictly_Proper_for_a_Female_Pen_Eighteenth-Century_Poetry_and_the_Sexuality_of_Botany_proof_
Watts, Ruth, Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History. (London and New York: 2007), pg. 63.
花田女下
Prayer and a segment of the Monologues from the Margin written 2 yrs ago 數年前寫的禱文和邊沿獨白的其中一則《花田女下》, 適時元宵暨情人節, 便修飾了再貼一下:
(opening)
讓我們祈求
我們
可以張開雙眼 觀望 （將手蓋在眼上，打開）
打開雙耳 傾聽 （將手蓋在雙耳，打開）
倘開心扉 感受 （將手按在心口 Continue reading
德輔道西的凌晨
我茹素 但愛海味街謐靜的深宵,
蝶戀花
她從巴士下來
走到花圃邊上
那兒種著從來沒有讓我停步的impatiens
谷歌說那是凤仙花
天口涼了
凤仙捱不得冷 剩下寥寥幾枝
遍種在花園各角 我卻從沒有為她停步
或 瞄她一眼
她在寒冷的空氣中俯下身來 Continue reading
我們都是等著海冰的白熊 — 寫在素食嘉年華前
超級颶風壓境遇上中秋大潮，香港急忙撿視下水道設施，以確保這城免於水淹。建設大型排水設施抗洪，修河防汛，或可應付在加劇和變得頻繁的暴雨於一時，卻不一定能應付因地球變暖度至水位上升而變本加厲的風暴潮，更不能防旱和火熱高溫。其實，我們都是等著海冰的北極熊，始終不能逃避氣候異變的惡果； 好些本港的邊沿社群，更已是首當其衝，只是我們不察覺，莫說離我們更遠的地方。 Continue reading
給老鼠寫信 給螞蟻留飯 – 素食嘉年華的故事閣
在香港這個肉食之城的西沿海邊, 今年舉辦了這城第一屆的素食嘉年華. 在十月一個明亮的秋日, 竟有4千多人長途跋涉的坐上車程達90分鐘的91號車去到清水灣泮的三育書院, 於一個主要靠著社交網絡流傳的活動來說, 可算了贏了一個大滿貫. 在那兒的空氣都在欣喜震動. 全素行,其中一個主因是愛動物愛地球, 從餐桌開始推翻從屬的關係, 及和相關的暴力說不. 那天在藍天白雲之下, 要尋索如何重建與大自然的關係, 可以從動物與我們的關係說起. 為此, 我拉來了《傳說我城103》一書裏面兩位愛動物的作者, 去到香港素食節那兒跟大家說故事.
周綺薇給我們說了收錄在書裏面的『我成魔之路』加長版外,
還說了這故事的前傳, 她家在深水埗舊車房的往日種種. Continue reading
坪洋公立學校誠實的孩子–花花力量在坪輋
昨天參在新界坪輋/打鼓嶺坪洋公立學校寫生, 那是一間已被棄置6年的村校, 在東北被規劃的範圍之內, 空城計劃給參加者每人一個當年學生的小故事, 讓參加者用塑料彩繪畫下來, 我抽到的故事是: 學生在路上拾到一疊鈔票, 他交給學校的老師, 獲得學校頒贈錦旗獎勵…….故事是好, 但我想了很久, 要怎麼畫才不老土……..你們有主意嗎??? Continue reading
School Days with A pig – Making connections and getting stuck???!!!
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I failed to get on a bus to go see the movie after a long wait in the rain for the cross harbour tunnel bus tonight, so I went home and watched it on the net instead. Very thought provoking……It is a drama about a teacher introducing a piglet to his graduating primary school class, and how the children who spent their days loving the little pig for one good school year challenged the initial agreement that the piglet should be eaten at the end of their school year. As barriers to let the piglet lives on begin to mount, they are being thrown into a difficult moral dilemma when they have to decide on the pig future before leaving school. Some film critics Continue reading
When lives are as cheap as those throw-away T-shirts
How my heart clenches this Sunday morning….Bangladesh…the place I first found children could be adorable…those big eyes with the longest eyelashes ever looking at me and little hands holding on my hands and sleeves as I walked through a flash flood torn village…..It was so many years ago and where are they now? Street urchins and orphans struggled through and grew up…just to be crushed? I could not bear this thought……Yes, what could we do? so many years of so called poverty alleviation and development works? what for? To cheer myself up, I might want to end with a happier note, otherwise……In support of the striking dockworkers, Hong Kong citizens chipped in a staggering HKD 7.5M to wage war against de tycoon of the city…….Awakening and justice starts from wherever that is closest to us……May power be to the people…ALWAYS. [sorry, Simon i have jammed in your post….for a place I once worked hard to mobilize the people of HK to support and changed the international aid policy back then.]